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Bret Baier, chief political anchor for Fox News, will conduct a joint interview with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) on Monday on Capitol Hill about the race for House speaker.
Jordan and Scalise have announced their bids to succeed Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted this week, while Hern has said he is mulling a run for the post.
The interview will air on Special Report on Monday, in advance of a vote on Tuesday, the network said.
Punchbowl News first reported on Baier’s interview. There will be no audience, but the event likely will be closely watched by the Republican caucus as they try to elect a new leader.
Donald Trump, who himself has been pitched as a candidate and has expressed a willingness to do so, endorsed Jordan for speaker in a Truth Social post early on Friday, writing that he has “my complete and total endorsement.”
Weighing in against Jordan was former Rep. Liz Cheney, who in a speech on Thursday cited his involvement in Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, resulting in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. “There was a handful of people, of which he was the leader, who knew what Donald Trump had planned,” she said. “Someone needs to ask Jim Jordan, ‘Why didn’t you report to the Capitol Police what you knew Donald Trump had planned. You were in those meetings at the White House.”
She added, “If Republicans decide that Jim Jordan should be the speaker of the House … there would no longer be any possible way to argue that a group of elected Republicans could be counted on to defend the Constitution.”
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